Features page (heartbeat monitoring) — Checkly

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• Heartbeat definition Report an error

  “Instead of Checkly calling your service, your scheduled job calls Checkly: it sends an HTTP ping to a unique URL every time it finishes successfully. If a ping does not arrive inside the window you set, Checkly treats the silence as a failure and alerts you.”

• Ping methods Report an error

  “Any HTTP GET or POST to your monitor’s unique ping URL.”

• Origin header Report an error

  “You can also send an Origin header to record which host checked in.”

• Period grace configurable units Report an error

  “Both period and grace are configurable in seconds, minutes, hours, or days.”

• Alert channels Report an error

  “The same channels as every other Checkly check: Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Microsoft Teams, email, SMS, phone calls, Discord, Telegram, incident.io, Rootly, FireHydrant, and fully customizable webhooks for everything else. That is 18+ channels, each subscribing to the alert types you choose.”

• Alert channels customizable types Report an error

  “That is 18+ channels, each subscribing to the alert types you choose.”

• Alert open close behavior Report an error

  “When a ping is missed, Checkly opens the alert on the channels you chose and closes it the moment the job checks back in.”

• Monitor as code cli Report an error

  “HeartbeatMonitor is a TypeScript construct in the Checkly CLI: versioned in git, reviewed in pull requests, and deployed alongside your other checks from CI.”

• Web app parity Report an error

  “Prefer clicks? Everything has full parity in the web app, and there is a Terraform provider too.”

• Ping sources Report an error

  “Drop a curl at the end of a bash script, add a step to a GitHub Action, fire a request from your app, or attach it to a Kubernetes CronJob. If it can reach a URL, it can check in.”

• Grace behavior Report an error

  “Grace is the extra time Checkly waits before alerting, so a run that goes long does not page anyone. If the total of period plus grace passes with no ping, the monitor fails and alerts fire.”

• Free trial start Report an error

  “Start for free”

• Credit card required Report an error

  “No credit card required.”

• Use cases Report an error

  “It is the right tool for cron jobs, backups, ETL pipelines, queue workers, and any task that runs on a schedule with no public endpoint to poll.”

• Opsgenie region priority config Report an error

  “region: 'EU',”

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